Fraudsters working for the Foreign Office in Mali siphon off £300,000 of UK aid money in fuel swindle

‘Fraudsters working for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office have siphoned off £305,000 in British aid money.
Staff in Mali were sacked when the swindle – involving contracts for fuel – was uncovered and a criminal investigation is under way.
The loss is equivalent to one in six pounds of the £1.8 million aid spent in Mali in 2015.
The FCO said in its latest annual report: ‘The FCO identified fraudulent losses of approximately £305,000 at an overseas post in the period from April 2014 to December 2016, as relating to bulk fuel and procurement.’
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